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Mclibel - Payola For Mcdonald's ?

This am radio 3 carried a piece that one of the authors of the McDonalds Green peace sheet (yeah 1990s) which was the subject of a libel trial, was a metropolitan police under cover agent. They then...
09:11 Sat 22nd Jun 20133 answers, last by bazwillrun 09:32 Sat 22nd Jun 2013
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Information Commissioner

Let's hear it for the Info Commissioner who has come out of his Data Protection cubby hole and said basically the act doesnt apply here (over riding public interest ) and I dont say lets hear it...
09:15 Thu 20th Jun 201322 answers, last by mikey4444 08:07 Fri 21st Jun 2013
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Oklahoma - Lack Of Oh Glory Halleluia !

. Every one regrets the unavoidable loss of life in Okie but no-one - I mean no-one had been on camera and intoned: Ah prayed to Gawd Almaarty - oh Glory Halleluia, and Ah was saved. [ while ma...
09:51 Wed 22nd May 201320 answers, last by dave50 16:05 Wed 22nd May 2013
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Law Report - Proper Law Question

. teevee tonight: a commentator said that last year the Supreme Court (or House of Lords to me as I live in the past) has enlarged the scope of vicarious liability - that is the liability of the...
23:15 Fri 11th Jan 20135 answers, last by Peter Pedant 11:52 Sun 13th Jan 2013
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Laplace, Black holes etc

Can anyone give me the reference, chapter and verse, about where he predicts Black Holes way back in 1799 ? . It is somewhere in Exposition of the Solar System The ref I had was page 305 but it is...
16:43 Thu 13th Sep 201211 answers, last by Peter Pedant 15:54 Sun 16th Sep 2012
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Location of BGT cull

Simon and his lot were busy cutting the throats of various hopefuls, from 140 to 40 and the setting was a main room/throne room of some grand palace/place in the back there were various gold objets or...
17:24 Mon 07th May 2012
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Tesco Fish fingers

Does anyone recall the name of the rather old piece which backs this advert. I thought it was Summer Serenade but I cant find it on U tube. The composer I think was a one hit wonder - this one and...
10:13 Sat 05th May 20125 answers, last by Peter Pedant 16:14 Mon 07th May 2012
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Tangents Normals and parameters

A curve is given by x=t2, y=t3. Find the eqn of the tangent with parameter u and the eqn of the normal to the curve at a pt whose parameter is v Find the parameter of the point where the tangent at...
19:15 Wed 18th Jan 20127 answers, last by vascop 14:57 Mon 23rd Jan 2012
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Maths again Exponential expansion

the question is find a and b in termns of n if the expansions of (1+x)n and exp ( ax/(1+bx)) are the same up to x2 (1+x)n is easyy 1 +nx + n(n-1)/2! x2 etc but the exponent : 1 + ax/1+bx +...
08:40 Wed 04th Jan 201211 answers, last by Peter Pedant 09:08 Mon 09th Jan 2012
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Length of tangents - circles and ellipses

Proper maths q coming up The reader will know that plugging in the co ordinate (p,q) into the eqn of a circle when (p,q) does NOT lie on the circle will return the length of a tangent to the circle...
19:38 Tue 27th Dec 20117 answers, last by vascop 13:36 Tue 10th Jan 2012
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Pianist but not Russ Conway

Side saddle crops up quite a lot but there is another contemporary piano solo almost a moto perpetuo which was almost as popular and had a name like summer serenade or unchained melody Not Mrs Mills...
21:45 Sun 11th Dec 20116 answers, last by trt 02:59 Tue 13th Dec 2011
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west of Lyme Bay

what is the bay west of Lyme Bay called ? The big one this is bugging me - it is the big bay with plymouth in it For about 20 yrs I thought it was Torbay but I found out that that was part of Lyme Bay...
09:39 Sat 26th Nov 20115 answers, last by follyfancier 13:01 Sat 26th Nov 2011
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Wills - leaving future possessions

Quick one: Mr A being a sensible soul has written a will. Dated 2011. In it he leaves Mrs A Buckingham Palace. Incredibly before he dies in 2028, he has acquired BP's freehold Does the bequest take...
09:42 Sun 01st May 20112 answers, last by bushbaby_de 11:07 Sat 07th May 2011
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Slashed throat ? No tax issue actually

. Is capital gains tax rolled over ? for transfers between spouses A is married and owns Whiteacre, Blackacre, Greenacre and a few others. Letacre, a let property is transferred to Mrs A for no...
21:52 Fri 15th Apr 201111 answers, last by venator 22:11 Fri 15th Apr 2011
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Maths: parametric eqns of a parabola

A variable chord of a parabola y2=4ax is of constant length 2a Prove that its midpoint lies on a curve given by (y2-4ax)(y2+4a2)+4a2=0. [S level 1965)
11:04 Sun 15th Nov 20094 answers, last by Peter Pedant 22:59 Thu 19th Nov 2009
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IHT calculation

If a dead man has an estate of £1m and leaves half to battersea dogs home - a charity - and the other half to Miss Lulubella Whiplash, what is the tax calculation ? Lulubell is a tax payer by...
21:21 Wed 16th Sep 20093 answers, last by Peter Pedant 18:37 Sat 19th Sep 2009
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Hillerman: which is the best ?

Hillerman, the Times and Telegraph tell me is now a dead white author. which is his best novel in the Navajo series I dont want to read them all thanks
02:51 Thu 30th Oct 20084 answers, last by Quizmonster 17:40 Thu 30th Oct 2008
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work houses

Do the records of work houses still exist and are they on the internet please two relations have died in workhouses and I wondered if there were any contemporaneous records I could access ? thanks PP
22:40 Fri 10th Oct 20085 answers, last by yapisle 23:34 Fri 31st Oct 2008
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Wills, Jointure and CGT

yes Boys and Gurlz usually it is a question of: I am not insured - will I have to pay. But listen to this question If a house is owned jointly by A and B who are not otherwise related ie not man and...
17:00 Fri 09th May 20085 answers, last by dzug 16:49 Sat 10th May 2008
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Commonest English words

Does anyone have a URL for a simple linguistic problem - which is a list of the 200 commonest used English words and for that matter the commonest 1000 words ? Thanks PP
21:55 Sat 05th Apr 20085 answers, last by Peter Pedant 18:56 Sun 06th Apr 2008

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